Cintas Stock: Analyst Estimates & Ratings

Cincinnati, Ohio-based Cintas Corporation (CTAS) provides firm individuality uniforms and related concern services. With a marketplace headdress of $74.7 billion, the company sells uniforms and enactment apparel, arsenic good arsenic entranceway mats, restroom supplies, promotional products, papers management, occurrence protection, and archetypal assistance and information services.

Shares of this leading provider of firm individuality uniforms and related services have underperformed the broader marketplace implicit the past year. CTAS has declined 16.1% implicit this clip frame, portion the broader S&P 500 Index ($SPX) has rallied astir 11%. In 2025, CTAS banal is up 1.7%, compared to SPX’s 12.3% emergence connected a YTD basis.

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Narrowing the focus, CTAS’ underperformance is besides evident compared to the Industrial Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLI). The exchange-traded money has gained astir 6.4% implicit the past year. Moreover, the ETF’s 13.6% gains on a YTD ground outshine the stock’s single-digit returns implicit the aforesaid clip frame.

On Sep. 24, CTAS shares closed down marginally aft reporting its Q1 results. Its EPS of $1.20 surpassed Wall Street expectations of $1.19. The company’s gross was $2.72 billion, beating Wall Street's $2.69 cardinal forecast. Cintas expects full-year EPS to beryllium $4.74 to $4.86, and gross successful the scope of $11.1 cardinal to $11.2 billion.

For the existent fiscal year, ending successful May 2026, analysts expect CTAS’ EPS to turn 9.8% to $4.83 connected a diluted basis. The company’s net astonishment past is impressive. It bushed the statement estimation successful each of the past 4 quarters.

Among the 21 analysts covering CTAS stock, the statement is simply a “Moderate Buy.” That’s based connected 7 “Strong Buy” ratings, 12 “Holds,” 1 “Moderate Sell,” and 1 “Strong Sell.”

This configuration is little bearish than a period ago, with 2 analysts suggesting a “Strong Sell.”

On Nov. 12, Bernstein initiated sum of CTAS with a “Market Perform” standing and $200 price target, implying a imaginable upside of 7.6% from existent levels.

The mean terms people of $220.12 represents an 18.5% premium to CTAS’ existent terms levels. The Street-high terms people of $255 suggests a notable upside imaginable of 37.2%.

On the day of publication, Neha Panjwani did not person (either straight oregon indirectly) positions successful immoderate of the securities mentioned successful this article. All accusation and information successful this nonfiction is solely for informational purposes. This nonfiction was originally published connected Barchart.com